3d audio for windows games - come on in...

I was able to get Win XP up and running with BootCamp very easily.
I checked out a few of my games on the XT1900 and they looked great, but I knew sound would be a big disappointment since I was used to 5.1 gaming audio on my PC with a Creative X-fi

Needless to say I did a lot of searching for some 5.1 audio solutions that would work either via USB or Firewire.

Wow.... I thought the problem was the fact that the decoding of the Dolby 5.1 to the 6 channels (analog) had to be done on the audio card, and thus all other external decoding wasn't supported.

I agree that Dolby 5.1 is a real added bonus for PC gaming. I loved driving along playing Richard Burns, when you could hear your real wheels spinng or the front wheels slipping or hear the rear end slide if you pull the handbrake.

I just wish Soundblaster would make a PCI-E version of the X-fi series....
Then the Mac Pro would be the ultimatie driving machine!

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